Becky Lynch and Ellsworth Would Be Up for a Match Against Each Other

Becky Lynch responded to a fan on Twitter who suggested a Becky vs. James Ellsworth match, saying, “Yes, can we?” Someone then asked James Ellsworth if he would be up for the intergender match and he said “duh.” WWE doesn’t really do intergender matches so it seems like it probably won’t actually happen, but “you never know” I guess.

It’s a win-win situation for James Ellsworth and for (most of) the fans to have him beat Becky Lynch!

WWE just needs to get that waiver for the man-on-woman violence, so that booking decision won’t incur them sanctions.**

(**Theoretical fines aside, having Ellsworth win will cost less money than booking Becky to win would cost them in terms of pissed-off fans: I literally -did- boycott WWE when they had Chyna as Intercontinental Champion.)

All in all, you can only harm the male roster by having Ellsworth job to Lynch.

But if James Ellsworth -does- defeat Becky Lynch (by whatever means: pinfall; submission; count-out; disqualification; etc.), then you build him as an even-more interesting heel — one who plays to the patriarchal power fantasies of many male WWE viewers!

Furthermore, this would not impair the “empowered” image of the women’s roster in the least, because they are perennial underdogs in the wrestling world anyway, except when facing each other.

But if WWE -does- pull such a stunt, then it should waive its normal “no man-on-woman violence on TV” rules — which might actually involve getting an exception from USA Network.*

(*Even though it’s on cable, some cable channels have self-imposed rules against certain depictions. For example, Spike TV had such a rule against man-on-woman violence, which meant intergender matches on Impact! were just the woman on offense and, consequently, boring and made the male wrestler seem like he shouldn’t be a pro wrestler -at all.-

If WWE has Lynch squash Ellsworth like that, then it will make AJ Styles seem less important as well, seeing how Ellsworth beat Styles 3 times already!

FinnMcInnes

To hell with Ellsworth, I’ll wrestle Becky anytime she wants. Some Irish on Irish action.